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Adolescent body mass index and changes in pre-pregnancy body mass index in relation to risk of gestational diabetes

EClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: Pregestational excessive body mass index (BMI) is linked to an increased risk for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), but less is known on the effect of adolescent BMI on GDM occurrence.
Gabriel Chodick, Maayan Omer-Gilon, Estela Derazne, Gal Puris, Ran Rotem, Dorit Tzur, Orit Pinhas-Hamiel, Tali Cukierman-Yaffe, Avi Shina, Inbar Zucker, Amir Tirosh, Arnon Afek, Varda Shalev, Gilad Twig   +13 more
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Offering weight management support to pregnant women with high body mass index: A qualitative study with midwives [PDF]

, 2019
Objective: The prevalence of pregnant women with high body mass index is increasing worldwide. High body mass index is associated with health risks for mother and baby and supporting healthy gestational weight gain is important.
Allen-Walker, Atkinson, Atkinson, Braun, Christenson, de Jersey, DeJoy, Dencker, Ekman, Furness, Haby, Haby, Hasted, Heslehurst, Heslehurst, Institute of Medicine, Knight-Agarwal, Lindhardt, Lindqvist, Marchi, McCann, McCann, McGiveron, McIntyre, Mulherin, Nyman, Olander, Olander, Olander, Patel, Petrov Fieril, Poston, Simmons, Small, Wennberg   +34 more
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Waist circumference adjusted for body mass index and intra-abdominal fat mass. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundThe association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality is particularly strong and direct when adjusted for body mass index (BMI). One conceivable explanation for this association is that WC adjusted for BMI is a better predictor of the ...
Tina Landsvig Berentzen, Lars Ängquist, Anna Kotronen, Ronald Borra, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Patricia Iozzo, Riitta Parkkola, Pirjo Nuutila, Robert Ross, David B Allison, Steven B Heymsfield, Kim Overvad, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Marianne Uhre Jakobsen   +13 more
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Association of dietary antioxidant index with body mass index in adolescents

Obesity Science & Practice, 2023
Background Dietary antioxidants may decrease body fat through reduction of oxidative stress. This study aimed to examine the association between dietary antioxidant index (DAI) and body mass index (BMI) in adolescent boys. Methods In this cross‐sectional
Bahareh Aminnejad, Zahra Roumi, Naeemeh Hasanpour Ardekanizadeh, Farhad Vahid, Maryam Gholamalizadeh, Naser Kalantari, Asal Ataei, Saeid Doaei   +7 more
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Intergenerational change and familial aggregation of body mass index [PDF]

, 2011
The relationship between parental BMI and that of their adult offspring, when increased adiposity can become a clinical issue, is unknown. We investigated the intergenerational change in body mass index (BMI) distribution, and examined the sex-specific ...
AG Barnett, AJ Stunkard, AM Herskind, BW Silverman, C Hart, C Power, CL Ogden, EM Perez-Pastor, F Bauer, J Wardle, JE Cecil, KM Flegal, L Macdonald, MN Upton, NJ Shelton, NM Abu-Rmeileh, S Leary, SG Davey, T Clemons, VM Hawthorne, Y Wang   +20 more
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Tracking of Obesity in Childhood into Adulthood: Effects on Body Mass Index and Fat Mass Index at Age 50

Childhood Obesity, 2020
Background: Obesity is present in 17% of US youth, age 2–19 years, but the extent to which obesity in childhood is associated with higher BMI and fat mass in middle age is unclear.
A. Rundle, P. Factor-Litvak, S. Suglia, E. Susser, Katrina L Kezios, G. Lovasi, P. Cirillo, B. Cohn, Bruce G. Link   +8 more
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Determination of Black Hole Masses in Galactic Black Hole Binaries using Scaling of Spectral and Variability Characteristics

, 2009
We present a study of correlations between X-ray spectral and timing properties observed from a number of Galactic Black Hole (BH) binaries during hard-soft state spectral evolution. We analyze 17 transition episodes from 8 BH sources observed with RXTE.
Belloni, Borozdin, Dewangan, Filippenko, Fiorito, Greene, Herrero, Hynes, Kalemci, Klein-Wolt, Lang, Laurent, Laurent, Lev Titarchuk, McClintock, Montanari, Nickolai Shaposhnikov, Orosz, Orosz, Orosz, Park, Revnivtsev, Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Rybicki, Shakura, Shaposhnikov, Shaposhnikov, Shaposhnikov, Shrader, Shrader, Sobczak, Strohmayer, Sunyaev, Sánchez-Fernández, Titarchuk, Titarchuk, Titarchuk, Titarchuk, Titarchuk, Trudolyubov   +40 more
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Anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes among White and Black American adults [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study was to determine the best anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among White and Black males and females in a large US sample.
Gachupin, Francine C, Garvin, Jane T, Hardy, Dale S, Racette, Susan B, Stallings, Devita T, Xu, Hongyan   +5 more
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STUDY OF THE VALUE SPHERE OF OVERWEIGHT WOMEN

Russian Journal of Education and Psychology
Background. According to statistics, the number of obese people is growing rapidly. Attitude to one's own weight, as well as a negative assessment of appearance by others, can negatively affect self-esteem, lead to psychological and emotional problems ...
Yulia A. Tokareva, Vera I. Tolmacheva
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Impact of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta on a Helium-star Binary Companion

, 2010
The impact of Type Ia supernova ejecta on a helium-star companion is investigated via high-resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. For a range of helium-star models and initial binary separations it is found that the mass unbound in the ...
Dessart, Domínguez, Dubey, Dwarkadas, Dwarkadas, Eggleton, Eggleton, Eggleton, Fryxell, Goldhaber, Hachisu, Hachisu, Hachisu, Hachisu, Hachisu, Howell, Ivanova, Kasen, Knop, Kuo-Chuan Pan, Leonard, Mannucci, Marietta, Meng, Meng, Paul M. Ricker, Riess, Ronald E. Taam, Scannapieco, Timmes, Waldman, Wang, Wang, Wickramasinghe   +33 more
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